The Treasures

Discover highlights from our network of  archives. Learn more about these rare images, photographs, documents and artefacts relating to Jewish life in Britain over the past thousand years. Do you have a treasure you’d like to share? Tell us more here.

Oneg Shabbat Box

A metal box from the Warsaw Ghetto's Oneg Shabbat archive

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Brondesbury Synagogue

The metamorphosis of a north London synagogue • JCR-UK

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Boris Bennett’s Camera

Camera of the well-known wedding photographer • Jewish Museum London

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Yiddish Typewriter

Yiddish Typewriter belonging to the playwright Abish Meisels

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Elena Lederman’s Chocolates

Celebrity chocolatier Elena Lederman with Elizabeth Taylor • AJR Refugee Voices

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Open Letter Against the Mistreatment of Jews in Europe

British voices ask for action in The Daily Worker & The Times • The National Archives

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Eva Rott’s Slave Labour Ring

Ring made by Eva Rott at the Heinkel aircraft factory • Imperial War Museum

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Sir Nicholas Winton’s ring

Commemorative ring presented to Sir Nicholas Winton • Sir Nicholas Winton Archive

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It’s Hard To Be A Jew

Grand Palais Theatre Poster • Jewish Museum London

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Ruth Danson in the bluebell woods of Bunce Court School

Ruth Danson & friends in the bluebell woods, 1939 • AJR Refugee Voices Archvie

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R.A. Gibson Barmitzvah photo, 1976

Photo by renowned studio photographer • Hackney Archives

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Ordination of Women Rabbis

Elaina Rothman and Miri Lawrence preparing to be ordained as rabbis • JHASW

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